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Even though at the Sourceforge page there is a tar.gz that you can extract and use the install script to install the program, I had problems with it, so it is indeed best to compile a version against the libraries on your system.

Your main compilation problem seems to be the lack of libboost development libraries: you can get all of these by running

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

Dependencies

However, there are a number of other dependencies and build dependencies that are necessary for the program, so here's how I successfully compiled it on Ubuntu 12.04.

If you wish to set a prefix where it is to be installed or wish to select another configure option, run ./configure --help before you run ./configure && make.

Now just run

sudo checkinstall --pkgversion=2.0

However, after that you must also install the data folders into ~/.magicseteditor, as checkinstall did not seem to install that data. So make sure ~/.magicseteditor exists, and make sure you are in the magicseteditor folder where you compiled it, and run:

Make sure no mistakes are made when copying these across, as the directory structure is important.

Again, these commands will only work if you are in the magicseteditor folder in which you compiled it. (Indeed there does seem to be a Resources.sh in the magicseteditor folder that can be used to install the data, but it does not install the data directory, so I should use the commands above, which will install everything you need instead.)

It also seems that you need the fonts from the other package, so download it, move to its containing folder, and extract it with

tar -xzvf mse-linux32-2011-02-05-full.tar.gz

cd to the folder and run

cp fonts/* ~/.fonts

Now run magicseteditor & and the screenshots such as those below will appear.